PRINTING IN A DISTRIBUTED COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK

摘要

A method and system is provided for printing jobs received from enterprise customers through a global printing network. One aspect relates to an architecture that interfaces customers, communication service firms (CSFs), and downstream digital print service providers (PSPs) in a global communications network. Such an architecture permits last-mile production functions that allow the distribution of print jobs to be optimized, containing costs, maintaining quality, and performing billing functions that improve the quality of such networks and make a global print network feasible. As a result, Enterprise customers benefit from lower costs and global sourcing while print service providers and graphics service firms benefit from increased revenue due to increased utilization of the overall global network.7

主权项

1. A method for printing in a distributed communications network, the network comprising a plurality of enterprise customers capable of printing to a plurality of color printer types, the method comprising acts of:
determining a color reference; determining a respective output associated with each of the plurality of color printer types; and comparing the color reference to each respective output; and determining, for each of the plurality of color printer types, a deviation in response to the act of comparing.